xsl-fo: round border for table or block

[Markus (archive)]

hi,
i am new to the xsl-fo-pdf-stuff...

i want to create a pdf document with apache-fop. in this document i do have a border around two blocks. my designer want to have round corners for the border. is there any easy way to do this? and the second question: the two blocks have to overlap each other, so the borders will overlap too.

thanxs in advance

markus

 

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

i am new to the xsl-fo-pdf-stuff...

Me too. You're not alone.

i want to create a pdf document with apache-fop. in this document i do have a border around two blocks. my designer want to have round corners for the border. is there any easy way to do this? and the second question: the two blocks have to overlap each other, so the borders will overlap too.

I'm new, so I'll take a stab at it.

I don't see any way in the border styles to see anything that's a round corner per se. Border styles are:

dashed dotted double groove
hidden inherit inset none
outset ridge solid

One alternate would be to have a graphic that gets laid in before the text, but there's always the problem of knowing where to put it or how large to make it.

 

[Markus (archive)]

Me too. You're not alone.

I don't see any way in the border styles to see anything that's a round corner per se. Border styles are:

dashed dotted double groove
hidden inherit inset none
outset ridge solid

One alternate would be to have a graphic that gets laid in before the text, but there's always the problem of knowing where to put it or how large to make it.

ok, native border styles won't help. i have just found out, how to overlap graphic and texts... as we have fixed border width/heights it won't be no problem to use a graphic for this... i have to play around a bit...

my task is to create a invoice-style ticket with lot's of "design" and some security-graphics...

thanxs for your answer.

markus

 

[Arved Sandstrom]

Me too. You're not alone.

I'm new, so I'll take a stab at it.

I don't see any way in the border styles to see anything that's a round corner per se. Border styles are:

dashed dotted double groove
hidden inherit inset none
outset ridge solid

One alternate would be to have a graphic that gets laid in before the text, but there's always the problem of knowing where to put it or how large to make it.

The problem is that it is not the style of a *border* to have a rounded corner - that would apply to a rectangular area, because the stipulation of the rounding would refine the perimeters of the area, to which former the styling of the border would then apply.

AHS